Torres de Colón

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These twin skyscrapers, located in the Plaza de Colón, were built by architect Antonio Lamela in 1976, using a different approach and commencing construction with the highest floors. The towers were built around a central concrete skeleton anchored to the ground, and each of the 23 floors of these two buildings were then 'hung' onto it. Together these two high-rises, which stand 116 metres tall, comprise Madrid’s twelfth highest building.

In the early 1990s they were renovated, and the two buildings were joined together by a fire escape ladder that hangs from a green structure which crowns the building and is shaped like a plug.